In the history of human civilization, the body has always had a significant role in culture and art, and Man has never stopped looking at himself - his own physical structure - before and more than anything else, till to imagine, and to represent, even the Gods in human form.
From the prehistoric callipigs venuses, to Botticelli's Born of Venus, to the anorexic models of the 21st century, even in the changing of the idea of beauty, this special attention to material, tangible himself, has never failed. And this cultural relationship with the body has marked the history of art.
But this relationship is not - or has ever been - exclusively aesthetic. The body has been and is a tool of work, and an expressive tool; and it was, and is, the subject of human intervention. From the earliest tattoos to aesthetic surgery and transplants, Man has never stopped acting on his body, trying to modify it.
And in this millennial dialectical relationship, which we could symbolically summarize in the arch that goes from the Dolier of Policleto to Molly by William Gibson, it encapsulates much of the cultural experience of the human species.
The 3ODI3S project invites artists to investigate this relationship, from classical antiquity - as represented in the arts - to the near future, tomorrow's cyborg, not only enriched with mechanics prostheses replacement, but with implemented expansive electronic grafts.
AU CU It is a reflection on glitch and digital error. The motion capture recording of the figure is altered by the sound whose waveform moves the frames in one direction or the other. The error characterizes this strange world. The female figure in the fulfillment of a simple action transmits its ambiguity. Do you act, are you afraid? Does the ...
A landscape that always tells a different story, our skin, is scanned with a digital microscope showing details that look like maps of unknown planets. An infinite variety of colors, textures and shapes, patterns and imperfections - sometimes beautifully frightening - are transformed into digital information producing live generative sounds and ...
Untold Hairstories The Queen of Sheba's book is found and opened. H(air)story emerges like a spell, revealing myths, legends, rituals in which the archetype of the Hairy Woman is celebrated, admired, adored, spoken, written and depicted with respect and playfulness, contributing to the creation of a positive body-hair culture and tradition. Who ...
LIFT SKIN, 2017 Images of naked female bodies are projected onto a masculine body, merging, in a certain way, the idea we make of both. We see female bodies with breasts full of hair, legs and abdomen, faces ... These projected bodies are like a new skin that lights up in the receiving body. These bodies appear to move over the other body, ...
I Am Your Database video, music: Alessandro Amaducci presence: Freaky Bones 2014 You have only one life. In the videogame of life the final battle has begun, and the winner is already decided. Database of life, database of death.
Uncalled for Anatomy A video by Eleonora Manca Music by Almad 2015 1'15'' To acquire awareness of time and space as results of having changed one's skin by watching, during that constant metamorphosis, the only possible final outcome. At the crossing towards a new being that - though not yet different from itself - is about to become so.
Transcend matter, transcend nature, defeat death. The body has been a battlefield, object of experimentation. To dominate. Get immortality. Beat the flesh. At first it was magic, then science and today with new technologies subverts reality, nature in a virtual imaginary. Again the magic. Prometheus, Hephaestus, Pygmalion. From the Golem, to ...
The video takes as its title the phrase of the artist Barbara Kruger that became the slogan of the feminist activists of the late 80s, "your body is a battlefield". The work stages this phrase by showing the bodies of several women on whom images of war documentaries have been projected. The intention is to investigate languages and alliances ...
As in a dream. Bathed in diffused tonalities of light. Lifted by the unseen into the undiscovered, into the shifting contours of my mind. Detached, liquid, delicately suspended. Weightless.
A procession of bodies ascends and descends a staircase surrounded by blackness. The characters gradually start interacting by touching each other and filling up the screen to the point of saturation, where the borders between individual figures disappear.
AU CU It is a reflection on glitch and digital error. The motion capture recording of the figure is altered by the sound whose waveform moves the frames in one direction or the other. The error characterizes this strange world. The female figure in the fulfillment of a simple action transmits its ambiguity. Do you act, are you afraid? Does the ...
A landscape that always tells a different story, our skin, is scanned with a digital microscope showing details that look like maps of unknown planets. An infinite variety of colors, textures and shapes, patterns and imperfections - sometimes beautifully frightening - are transformed into digital information producing live generative sounds and ...
A science fiction from the past. A friction between two nation-building projects forged for Brazil in the mid-20th Century: one is a tropical imagery personified by the singer and actress Carmen Miranda; another one is a late modernism established in Brazil by the end of the 50's, beginning of the 60's, embodied in Rio de Janeiro by Flamengo ...
“There is no one online” is a short experimental film that combines still and moving image, performance and text. Inspired by Francis Bacon's study of the human figure and processed to look like a malfunctioning video call, the film is a sequence of self-portraits captured from the recording of a one hour performance shot with a webcam in ...
"the singularity" (working title), 2018 Single-channel video, 1080p HD 1:1 (w.i.p.) This is a project proposal for a video (to be developed) featuring the head of Ray Kurzweil that dramatically and sarcastically comes into contact with an electronic device, finally reaching the singularity. I was dubious about submitting it, but sorry my ...
Venus Iteration (Work in progress) Venus Iteration explores the human body at micro and macro levels as an ecosystem full of trans-species entanglement. Microbiome (non-human microbial cells) are ten times as many more than human cells. They coexist with human cells, having symbiotic, pathogenic, and reciprocative relationships with them. 3D ...
Le bain Mono-channel video, 4 minutes 40, 2018. HD, color, stereo sound. « Le bain » is a work based on a formal and performative approach that develops an introspective and poetic aspect of one’s self. The video shows a female body immersed. Emerge a new and strange entity. Over the repetitive rhythm of gesture under the water, the work ...
SOY (LA NAVE VA) / I AM (THE SHIP GOES) This is a video about the encounter with a mystical state through a symbolic and metitative action. In the finding of this experience, the body is the interface or ¨ bridge ¨ between the reality and a sobrenatural dimension.
A camera slowly follows the figure of a woman walking, with continuous travelling. On both sides, in an impossible space, hang framed pictures with recognizable images from the history of Western painting, in which the great geniuses, men, have represented the figure of women over centuries. Towards the end of her journey she begins to be ...
Untold Hairstories The Queen of Sheba's book is found and opened. H(air)story emerges like a spell, revealing myths, legends, rituals in which the archetype of the Hairy Woman is celebrated, admired, adored, spoken, written and depicted with respect and playfulness, contributing to the creation of a positive body-hair culture and tradition. Who ...
In these worlds inhabited by the body, the senses and experience, there entered artists and poets who wrote detailed logbooks of their explorations. But these voyagers were attracted by two horizons. On the one hand, the wish to pervade those spaces with a harmony consisting of order and measure; on the other hand, the seduction of darkness, a ...
Unconcealment III / Transparence Unconcealment films are short video portraits of contemporary artists. Unconcealment, ‘’Unverborgenheit,’’ was a word Heidegger used as a translation for the ancient Greek word Alethia. Heidegger referred to the truth as Alethia. Alethia literally means for a thing to be unveiled, not-concealed. Heidegger ...
Unconcealment I / Francesco Albano Starring Francesco Albano Unconcealment I is short film about the calling of the sculptor Francesco Albano, filmed in his studio. The artist has been working in Istanbul since 2010. He is interested in and influenced by a wide range of subjects from philosophical, mystical and spiritual arguments to ...
Unconcealment V / Hanefi Yeter Unconcealment films are short video portraits of contemporary artists. Unconcealment V is a short film about the calling of the artist Hanefi Yeter, filmed in his studio. Unconcealment V is an attempt to see through the eyes of the artist and his mood in the moment of his artistic calling. Hanefi Yeter was born ...
Sequences is an experiment with the image, to be more precise with the self-portrait. The result is a series of four loop videos of two minutes each in which I perform a series of actions in which the sense of reality is altered. I understand my videos as technological performances that would be impossible to realize in reality. The work is ...
LIFT SKIN, 2017 Images of naked female bodies are projected onto a masculine body, merging, in a certain way, the idea we make of both. We see female bodies with breasts full of hair, legs and abdomen, faces ... These projected bodies are like a new skin that lights up in the receiving body. These bodies appear to move over the other body, ...
BENEATH, 2017 The camera moves in a jungle of pubic hair like a harassed animal that escapes some danger. The sound of the video is obtained by the contact of the camera with said hairs giving this animalic air as it moves. Establishing the limits / surroundings of image and sound, the video takes on a new look at the body, the skin and their ...
THE MONSTER WITHOUT THE BEAUTY, 2017 There is no monster without Beauty In nature everything is balanced: the ugly is balanced with the beautiful, the beauty with the monstrosity, the good with the bad. Everything is in perfect balance. This is because one can only be understood by the other. The story "The Beauty and the Monster" has as its ...
No aesthetic surgery, mechanical or bio-chemical prostheses, chips and connections to achieve eternity anymore. Beauty, emotion and knowledge, from now on just with an application: 'U App'! 'U App' is easy to use, it isn't unwieldy, it's fast and painless and doesn't need updating! The software is an application of the recent sensational ...
Title of project: Neshamah Neshamah is a Hebrew word that means “breath”. This piece was inspired in the following biblical text: “then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature” (Genesis 2:7)
Directed by Todd Herman Going beyond the imprint of appearances, WHEN I STOP LOOKING invokes the intensely private worlds of those portrayed, each of whom lives with significant facial and cranial conditions; a vivid affirmation of existence comes forward before anything else. Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam, Cairo ...
By origin, the word Temenos is used to mark sacred space that encourages or creates shelter for disclosure and discovery. This act of revealing can be towards another or inward and beyond a physical sense of place. Playing off the idea of six feet under, Temenos creates a space six feet up. Within a spatial awareness of temenos, exists kairos or ...
Be yourself or be your avatar or be both to be a hybrid avatar. Can hybrid avatars meditate?
Shadows Human and nature have had an inseparable relationship throughout history. Perhaps, at this moment, this relationship is going to disappear with the way of urban life, but in reality it is indivisible. Sometimes, human forget that they are offspring of nature so, wandering like a shadow looking for a mirage. Unaware that the ultimate calm ...
CAT ZEN GARDEN by Ivana Filip A woman in an exploration of her alter ego’s obsession with cats enters a few stages where body and movement are used to enter the zen zone. In an box like room with artificial light, a woman enters a scene crawling into the cat sand. She enters the sand slowly moving her hand, making waves just like in a zen ...
I Am Your Database video, music: Alessandro Amaducci presence: Freaky Bones 2014 You have only one life. In the videogame of life the final battle has begun, and the winner is already decided. Database of life, database of death.
NO ONE CAN UNDERSTAND It's a cliche-ridden best suited on women.Yup! It's a bitter truth. But, here is the same story of a village lady who is caught red handed after the reality to which she was abusing his husband. Actually, Ladies are not as similar as they show to the world."IT'S A RAAZ" they do in dark when the whole world is busy.
Uncalled for Anatomy A video by Eleonora Manca Music by Almad 2015 1'15'' To acquire awareness of time and space as results of having changed one's skin by watching, during that constant metamorphosis, the only possible final outcome. At the crossing towards a new being that - though not yet different from itself - is about to become so.
The Grotesques is a series of comical caricatures inspired by a deep study of the Alessandro Allori frescos on the ceiling of the artist’s corridor in the Uffizi Museum, Florence, and the Roman Fourth period paintings on which they are based, found throughout archeological sites in Italy. I am interested in their symmetry and formal order and ...
Transcend matter, transcend nature, defeat death. The body has been a battlefield, object of experimentation. To dominate. Get immortality. Beat the flesh. At first it was magic, then science and today with new technologies subverts reality, nature in a virtual imaginary. Again the magic. Prometheus, Hephaestus, Pygmalion. From the Golem, to ...
It is an attempt to make visible, in the body, the ills of the mind. To materialize in plastic images the pains of the spirit, the body that squeaks in situations that cannot bear. It expresses the pain of a body subjected to realities that move it away from its true being. Grief, confusion, fear, lack of love, ties that imprison, the own shadow ...
On Becoming: A Mediation (Vermittlung) 2016 Video Performance, Digital /Analog Collage. Installation. ON BECOMING: A Mediation (Vermittlung) is an experimental and personal visual research and exploration as a relatively direct response to the radical mix of cultural, political, technological, and economic changes within the uncertain ...
An experimental sequence plan in which the observer is the celebrity, in a mystical combination of sound and moving images.
It's a mystical and hallucinatory journey of a resilient subject, not yet completely seduced by the machines; entangled in their challenging system, but radiating dynamism while struggling for self determination. Getting lost, falling apart, splitting, vanishing and resetting. Finding balance in between. A choreography that was processed with ...
It was the year 2000. I looked at my computer and leaned in. Twelve years later, I adorned the Emotiv EPOC, after designing a 22bit visual binary code, useful for human-computer interfaces.
Shadows in a Labyrinth 2017, HD, 16:9, 7 minutes 40 seconds. Direction & Production: Stéphanie Morissette & Dale Einarson Shadows in a Labyrinth is a reflexion on the complexity, the flaws & ephemeral aspects of our memory as well as of the medium and technologies, drawing parallels with mental illness like Alzheimer. This video mixes ...
Escape Artist, 2017. 1 min 28 sec, digital video with sound. A brief free style krumping performance, recorded without music. Soundtrack is dropped into video after the fact, and it seems perfect. Krump is a street dance popularized in the United States, characterized by free, expressive, exaggerated, and highly energetic movement.[1] The ...
The video takes as its title the phrase of the artist Barbara Kruger that became the slogan of the feminist activists of the late 80s, "your body is a battlefield". The work stages this phrase by showing the bodies of several women on whom images of war documentaries have been projected. The intention is to investigate languages and alliances ...
An experimental short film called "INHUMAN" about our swarm of the blind.
film name:mr.lonely and your soul run time:06:49 director/animator/producer:ilhami tunç gençer music:konstrukt/ahmetcan gokceer and vangellis
The film presents desecration of beauty and naturalness of female body and spirit, affected by constant struggle in order to achieve strict esthetics norms and acceptable ideals of beauty today, especially the desired beauty of female body. Another nose, another breasts, but where goes the soul when we meet our devils...?
My project is an adaptation of "Lulu Gay" by American modernist poet Wallace Stevens (1879-1955). In this poem, first published in 1921, Lulu comes face to face with the Barbarians; thus the imperious, liberated female confronts the prosaic, unimaginative male. In my film, made from re-purposed vintage public domain video, Lulu is a fan dancer ...
Metaphysics attempts to answer two questions, what is there? and what is it like? Amongst the first (that we know of) to ponder these questions was the Greek philosopher Thales. He believed according to Aristotle (for nothing that Thales wrote is extant) that water was the fundamental element and everything came from it and everything went back ...
Technolapse "Man programmed technology unconscious that in the future, technology was going to program him, forming an infinite ouroboros between them both" Technolapse is a video art about technolust and its symbolic reinterpretation through an archetype of the processes of mechanization; The typewriter. It is a video art that questions our ...
Conserto de Piano 285 or Piano Repair 285 ISSR 01 - Interfaces Sonoras em Situação de Rua (Sound Interfaces in Street Situation) Sonic interface, Liga do tempo (Time League), used in piano found abandoned in the also abandoned balcony of São Paulo. In this video I use a mechanical interface (a musician extension) to play a broken classical ...
This project is based on the impact of environmental factors on people's mentality. This project is related to improper imitation of others without thinking and wrong perception of beauty.
My video art, as if through a computer game, surrealistically. From my personal look as an artist, to turning the character into characters in a computer game. Of a technological world Cold and alienated. From figures of ancient time, to the characters of the future. There is never a chance in any situation. time is up. The video is based on ...
"Skin and Color" The video shows a Black African man painting his body with black color, his hands touch everything on black background. The work explores the relation between skin color and black color, and seeks to redefine the notion of color related to the skin.
Painting on Whitty Street
As in a dream. Bathed in diffused tonalities of light. Lifted by the unseen into the undiscovered, into the shifting contours of my mind. Detached, liquid, delicately suspended. Weightless.
Icare Flying is an eternal dream that lives in our desires and dreams to rise freely in the air and escape as Icarus making wings / prostheses to free itself from its jail-labyrinth. Escape from the fatality of our human condition to which laws, gods or physics have attributed "only" the earth's surface. Transgress the laws of the gods and ...
I came out as a transgender to my parents months ago. Before talking to them I was hopeful. I was terrified, but I was hopeful. Too much hopeful.
It's a short film about war
These experimental optical illusions are inspired by Gaga, a type of dance technique emphasizing sensation and imagery. Dance is directly correlated to the perfection of the classical body. Two years ago, I started my dance / movement practice, cultivating the subconscious of the mind-body connection. These visceral images are symphonies that tap ...
A procession of bodies ascends and descends a staircase surrounded by blackness. The characters gradually start interacting by touching each other and filling up the screen to the point of saturation, where the borders between individual figures disappear.
Night Clerk is a short experimental film that deals with how the body is tranformed by its environment. 2017
Another Self Portrait A single-take video recorded through the holes in a revolving film reel, this self-portrait renders two images of the artist's body as that same body tries to emulate the machine by drawing an educational film through the projector. The 19th century American portraitist Mary Cassatt once complained that James Whistler ...
Deep Skin will be an exploration on how memories are metaphorically identified as something either "tattooed" over the skin or "kept" under the skin; this, confronting the contemporary notion of the whole of the human experience as being now kept over digital environments and/or technological devices. Do the body remains the sole vessel of the ...
Inspired by the work of early scientific & anatomical photographer Eadweard Muybridge, Turning is a dance film exploring the cyclical nature of the body and repetitive behavior of contemporary society
Orfeo y cuerpo virtual 2 This video art comes into being to express the tension between the delicacy of the body, human needs and desires, and that strong mysterious feeling to reach the perfection. In the first image appears a sculpture of Orpheus by De Chirico that represent the character of a Greek mythology. With his lyre, he was ...
It's a poëtic short focussed on the atmosphere one can experience when on adventure with friends.
city-scape | ’sit ē-skāp noun 1. a linguistic intervention; a stand-in for ”city that escapes” 2. an amalgamation of the phrase ”city that escapes”, with the dash in between as symbolic of omission 3. when something is masked, concealed, or omitted at the border of things 4. the transformation of a city that is determined by the ...
9991/24 (DYNAMIC BIOGRAPHY) BRIEF SYNOPSIS > "Who Am I – And If So, How Many?" Richard David Precht (German Philosopher) "For what is a man, what has he got? / If not himself, then he has naught / To say the things he truly feels and not the words of one who kneels / The record shows I took the blows and did it my way!" Frank Sinatra ...
HELPact On a dismal, outer satellite of earth the last human's illegal, desperate end is entertainment news reported live via robo-caster. The net-wired, altered-human, robot newscaster with few needs, has never even encountered a genuine human, now outlawed and exterminated on earth for economic and political agendas. HELPact, Human Environment ...
Fear is one of the oldest human emotions. All visions of fear are better than the absolute unknown, every primitive shape is better than none. Primal fear has always provoked humans to create images of the unknown. Already in the Middle Ages the amalgamation of imagination with fear stretched through the vision of religious afterlife, as for ...
Shifted Overcoming internal chaos, opening my eyes. I am what I think. What I see I imagine. Who is the other but a reflection of myself? I run away from me, but I find myself again, the other in me.
Synopsis: An interview is conducted exploring methods used to facilitate a real research project whose aim it is to capture and analyze human micro-expressions for use by a variety of industries (including lie detection and entertainment/animation). But the particular research or the use of human subjects is really just a point of departure. ...
With the project Symbiodies, Elena Tagliapietra, performing artist, body painter and video artist presents a trip to a world where the landscape is strongly characterized by the architectural. As man enters in symbiosis, the body itself, highlighted in the colors of the being human. The dialogue between man and his man-made environment are played ...
I color-key my body while I am dressed in flesh-colored dancewear. Once the original clip is color-keyed, I put it over various backgrounds, as my supporting video and stills will show. Most of my videos are uploaded to YouTube and I monetize my videos. A few months ago, YouTube began to refuse to monetize the videos in which I have color-keyed ...
A video I made about having a body. How She Was Taught to Eat a Banana, 2016, HDV, 1:51
In a camera-surveilled world, a routine environmental survey turns into an encounter with an unexpected biotic singularity. Merkwelt over inferences, a dance is taking place. Chaotic. Unpredictable. Vital.
A short movie on the struggle to gain pleasure out of a young ,strong body of a man. The young man is divided between love and sex for money. The manifestation of dichotomies between old age and being young,between lust,passion and love for money. Classical triangle of love for sex,money.
Our Skin ブラック – is the project from Emp.Bikutoru, in this work he studies the relation of a one single body and its skin as the whole communion. The achievement of the individuality is hidden beyond the idea of the unity and its representative color – black, which covers the question of a sexuality and hidden essence
Karada 体 is a project of Emp.Bikutoru which is based on the concept of the body and its usage as a material. The thickness of the layers following the idea of saturation and close physical contact. The video contains the animated part and some examples of the skin elements. Both of these visual material and musical accompaniment are directed ...
Colorboarding, Zlatko Ćosić, 2013, video, 3:40 A nontraditional treatment for color blindness. Subconsciously, the video is a beautified ritual reflecting the physical and mental torture I lived through on December 2, 1992 in Yugoslavia.
Re-Birth, Zlatko Ćosić, 2013, video, 4:10 A displaced person is split into many parts, constantly adjusting, performing in a new environment. These performances are influenced by different cultures, beliefs, political and artistic views. After surviving a war I am living a second life, born again. Displacement created new experiences and ...
Recreating the marble statues of old with new technologies when you can model a statue that is almost identical to an image of a marble statue does this displace the value of these statues?
Hosted by Fonlad festival, from 1 to 10 june 2018.
Thanks to curators Jose Vieira and Sergio Gomes.
Fonlad festival
Within the video exhibit Name: InFocus, on 22 June 2018.
Thanks to curator David Grimaldo.
Department of Fine Arts, Visual Arts Program, on 22 May 2019.
Thanks to curator Ventsislav Zankov.